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Free parking in New York’s Union Square

The NYPD would like you to know that there’s a new loading and unloading zone in Union Square. Just use the sidewalk! Don’t worry – you won’t be ticketed, even though you’re breaking the law and inconveniencing thousands of pedestrians. After all, if the cops do it, it must be legal!

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villagevegan: It’s not unfair at all. If they need space to load and unload, they should do it while parked on the street. There’s a permitting process that would allow a temporary loading/unloading zone to be set up on the street. They could have used the already-existing loading zones on Union Square West, too. Instead, they chose to use the sidewalk.

It’s bad enough that the city is taking over a massive public space for private enterprise (the Union Square Holiday Bazaar) for the next six weeks, but this is just as big a slap in the face.

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